Welcoming Billie back to her place in the Afterlife, the Elders explain how the people she encountered in her many unique incarnations are like family, and why she herself has been both student and teacher.
“We all exist in an endless cycle of life and death, our souls intertwining through many lifetimes. We meet as parent and child, as husband and wife, as lover and friend, and as mother and son. Our roles are interchanged constantly so that we may experience the highs and lows of emotion, the riches and poverty of the social hierarchy, the violence and peace of the world order, and the pain and passion of life so that we gain empathy. We learn and teach what we have learned, only to realize we still have more to learn and to teach.”
“I understand that now,” Billie concedes. “I am at on
